It was a wonderful Thursday morning with mild breeze and relatively less humidity at 5:20 am we three of us ( Ramesh McKinsey, Karthik Padmanabhan and Myself) started the run with target of 12k, being run upto Velankannai Church and back.
Karthik declared he wanted to do non-stop run along with me instead of run/walk/run combo which he normally does. Ramesh ran at his pace which was faster than ours.
Karthik and Myself maintained consistent pace and met Shanaz at the Greenways Road running on the opposite direction. And when we reached the Malar Hospital Bridge it was Ramesh Seshadri doing his easy run of 6k as he is tapering for the Singapore marathon next week. We ran with him for till the Aavin Milk Booth.
We both were on the Besant Nagar Beach and saw Srinath, young at heart runner, waved hands and we turned back at the Velankanni Church. Here we both took a very short walk may be for 30 seconds and started running back.
We met Senthilanand cycling, at first I couldn't recognise due to his cycling gears on, near the Aavin Milk Booth and did not stop running just waved hands.
The last 2kms normally I used to slow down if I am alone and Karthik was running the final 2kms stretch at the same pace I just kept myself tagging with him. When the last 800m left I asked Karthik to slowly build up the pace and at the final 100m I declared to sprint with all energy and yes Karthik out paced me at the final 100m.
Finally it was a very decent 12k run at 8.9kmph in 1h:20m for me and Karthik and Ramesh McKinsey had done in approx 1h:12m.
At the finish point we met Ram in his casual night wear and helped us in stretching session. Ram has already hit 50k mileage for this week i.e from 22nd Nov to 25th Nov (Its like school student finishing his homework well in advance).
Happy Running.....
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